Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 17, Hammond, Lake County, 8 July 1919 — Page 1

COUNTY rrn STORM PERIOD H nmmiTATZOirAX wiw rVZ.Z X.EASED WI&S EEJtVICE. I Oa streets s&d newsstands. 3c VOL. XIV, NO. 17. TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1919. HAMMOND, INDIANA. J j V per copy. Delivered by carrier lu Hammond and West Hammond, SOo per month. nn7 EAST CHICAGO TO HAVE BOXING EXHIBITIONS PRF

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OUTS ARE E1ITTED City to Reap Financial Benefits from All Exhibitions Held. At a meeting of the city council of East Chicago last night the path was paved whereby East Chicago will soon have ten round boxing bouts under army and navy rules and the ban has been lifted on the game after the lid had been oa for years. The bars have by no means been thrown down to Tom, Dick and Harry- The city proposes to have something to say as to the manner in which the boxing exhibitions shall be held. ."o contests of skill, either boxing or wrestrling, may be held in East Chicago unless the person, firm or corporation holding such contests shall first compiy with the following provisions: CONTEOILIE TO ISSUE PERMIT. Any person, persons, firms or corporations wishing" to hold any boxing or wrestling contests shal first obtain a permit from the city controller. Then the party or parties shall pay ten dol lars .t the city controller for the permit and "enter into an agreement with' the city of East Chicago through its i-cnrol'.er for an additional sum of five tContlnued on page six.) GIRLS ACCEPT AUTOINVITATION And Were Forcibly Abducted, According to Tale Told the East Chicago Police. Misa Anna Pogostl. of Whiting, wa3 brought into the East Chicago polic; station last night In a badly frightened condition. With two companions, Jennie Prush end Francis Frankowskl. she accepted an invitation to go auto riding with two etrangers. The party waj headed for Gary when (he girls became frightened. The men topped tie car on a lonely road and the three girls escaped from the car screaming. The two men seized her companions and drove off towards Gary. Miss pogostl escaped and notified the East Chicago police. The fate of her companiocs is unknown. BANDITS, LOCKED IN DEATH CHAMBER S Doomed Men Seem at Last to Realize Fate That Befalls Them. tSRECIAL TO THE TIKES1 MICHIGAN CITY, Ind.. June ?. The f?ur bandits who shot up the First State Bank at Tollestcn, now under sentence of death Albert an1 Thomas Tatchelor. "Red" Tarker "and Daniel Trkulja have been placed in the death chamber in the penitentiary and tre being guarded day and night. Sheriff Lew Barnes of Lake county brought them here manacled and undc- heavy guard. Tho men -eai'ie the seriousness r.f their plight and re one is cer.-.n1 led to talk or fraternize with them whatever. HOUSE TAKES UP PROHIBITION TOPIC t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 WASHINGTON. July S. Prohibition legislation was taken up In the house this afternoon following conferences among house Republican leaders. The house rules committee, at a hurried session, decided to bring out tL new rule restricting debate on the prohibition enforcement bill to twelve hours, providing time for cor.sideratt;on of the bill section for amendments, and the placing of the measure with aM amendments on passage with cut one intervening dilatory motion that to recommit the hill to its committee for further changes.

E HEW BLOCK Another handsome nf building, costing in the neighborhood of $75,000 is to he erected in the business district on BroadVay in Gary in the near future. Plans have been drawn and construction will start within a short time on the beautiful new business block and home of the Orphans Candy Kitchen on the east side of Broadway between Fifth and Sixth avenues. The pltns indicate that it will be one of the finest fctructures to grace Broadway. The Orphan building will be two stories in height covering T5 ft. frontage and 120 feet in dtpth. Its construction wil ibe of ornamental pressed brick and trimmed in white tile. A store room 37'2 feet w ide and covering the depth of the lot will be occupied by the Orphan Candy Kitchen and two store rooms 18 feet wide will comprise! the alioted space on the first floor. The second floor will be devoted to ten of-' flee suites. Th Broadway lots on which the newbuilding is to be erected were recently acquired by the Orphan Company from the International Trust and Savings Bank at a cost approximately $63,000. The proprietor of the Orphan Candy Kitchen are John Lincoln and Alex Eleopnolis who have been in the Gary building for the past ten years. OGDEN DEAL CLOSING UP. According to the Valparaiso Yidette. Attorney W. J. Curkett, of Chicago, and representing the Inland Steel company has been in Valparaiso for several days closing up the details in the Ogden deal, involving the transference of the Ogden tract in Portage township to the Inland Steel company cf Indiana J Harbor. j It will be remembered that The Times carried the first story relative to' the purchase by the Inland Steel company of the big tract covering some 400 acres. It is located near Long Lake on the eastern boundaries of Gary on pvhrcS'thffy' wlir'Cfect a "hi steet Indus try, which it is said will probably outrival the Gary plant. GARY. LAND CO PLATS FOURTH ' The Gary Land company yesterday submitted to the city of Gary for approval, the plat of its Fourth subdivision. The new subdivision lies west of the present third subdivision and is bounded by the west side of Grant! street on the east by Roosevelt street, on the west front Second avenut to th' Wabash tracks. The Gary Land company plans to j start work on laying out and improving the streets, etc., in the ery near future. The new subdivision will make available nearly 400 residential lots for sale. acre plot cn which the new $300.000 1 Horace Mann School is are located on this site. to be erected ARMY MOTOR CORPS TO GO THROUGH DYER j Officials Are Apprised by War, Dept. of Coming Movement. (SPECIAL TO THE TIMES! DTER. ind.. July S A large division of the motor cops of the United States urmy will pass through Dyer about July 22 on a tour over the Lincoln Highway from Washington to San Francisco. The war department last week notified the various local highway officials of the trip and asked their co-operation. The motor train will comprise large army motor trucks, air craft d&fense trucks, battle truck equipment, in fact everything in the motor line used during the European war. The object of the tour is to arouse interest in the national motor school which will open In September for the benefit of enlisted men who i wish to acquire technical knowledge j and practical side of motor ser'ice. In announcing the trip General Drake, j w ho will bo in personal command of i the convoy from Salt Lake City west, said: "Wa hop In conducting this . first transcontinental run of an army transport convoy, to give an exhibition to the general public of th vast development of the motorized branch of the army and of the motor vehicle for miliV.v , . , conceded to be one of the principal factors contributing to the winning of the war. It Is also hoped that the trip. In addition to providing experience and data required by the war department, w ill serve the purpose of Indicating the need for the Immediate development of transcontinental highways and of through interstate connecting roads as military and economic assets. This trip over the Lincoln Highway is In a measure the War Department's contribution towards the good roads cause, a movement in which the army is vitally interested." The Lincoln Highway enters Lake county at Deep Ittver passing through the county without a turn and leaves the state at Dyer. Don't throw your paper away without reading the want ad pag.

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THEATRE JO START Final Details of 99 Year Lease on Kleighe PropertyClosed Up Today. Within two weeks excavation work will be tinder way for the construction of the new 3,000 capacity theatre which la to be erected cn the Kleihege property on Hohman St.. Hammond. Final details of the ninety-nine-year lease have teen attended to and yester day William Kleihege signed the taper. aild was Paid $30,000 in cold cash which is the security given by the firm of ! Sarros Kontos f Gregory that work will be started at once and the buildings will be up in a year. The lease started July 1. The big deal was arranged about the middle of June and at that time Mr. Kleihege agreed to remove all of the old buildings which are now located at the rear of the property which extends north cf the Lion Store furniture annex to the alley on Hohman st. and back :25 feet deep. He still has two weeks! in which to get rid of the buildings and this morning announced that he would start on them at once. He expects to sell the old barns if possible and they will either be moved away intact or wrecked on the spot. The building program now planned calls first for the erection of the theatre proper. This will occupy a site 150 feet by 38 feet at the northwest corner of the property. At the same time work will start on the remodeling of the old Humpftr store rom through which entrance will be obtained to the theatre. i This will be made into a broad lobby. The next step will be the building of a new front on the buildings now standing. The old red brick front will be torn away and a neV one of attractive design with mo4fn-ho- windows will replace it. There had been some talk of tearing I away the entire buildings, but this ha3 ! been abandoned and instead of the pro- ' posed five-stcry building, the two-story structure will simply be remodeled. Nothing wl.l be done this year cn the property which extends west of the furniture store on Sibley St., which was also included in the lease. SENT TO PRISON Joe Mysliwy Pleads Guilty to Unlawful Transportation of Liquor. (BTJX.X.XTXK.) fTIHES BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL! INDIANAPOLIS, tad., July 8 George E. Thomas, John Cosmos, Jordan Cosmos, Uolsa Dragomir, Stera StonetneroT, Paul Popovlch, Frank Johns, Ed. Zochwskl and Loreni Starslax, of Xake count?; Zda Both, of East Chicago; William Kobaska, of Wsst Hammond, pleaded not guilty to violations of tna S.ed amendment and all will be tried In court. mints BUREAU AT STATE CAPITAL! INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. July S. Joe Mysliwy, of East Chicago, pleaded guilty to unlawful transportation of liquor and was fined $100 and sentenced t three months in the Marion county jail. He was charged with bringing twentyone gallons of whiskey from Illinois, for which he paid $S a gallon and sold at $3 a quart. Ie told the court that Ke had brought the whiskey into the state for a group of friends, who had pooled the money to buy the whiskey. Two hundred sixty persons tndicted by the federal grand jury appeared before Judge A. B. Anderson in federal court at 10 o clock today for arraignment. Of the number 203 were charged with violation of the Iteed prohibition amendment. It seemed likely that the men indicted in the Mun'cie fraud cas WOuld not be arraigned before udav. Korty men charged with liquor law violations had been arraigned by 10:30 yesterday, and most of them pleaded not guilty. A few of the men charged with prohibition law violations were Inl jail and had not been brought Into the j courtroom. Evidence was that he oought his liquor at $8 per gallon and sold It for . $3 rer quart. DIES IN AUTO SMASHUP r INTERNATIONAL. NEWS SERVICE) SOUTH BEND, Ind.. July 8. William Snyder, 28, recently returned from overseas, is dead today following an automobile crash. LEAPED IN TIME. ' (INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE ' WASHINGTON. Ind , July 8. Robert Kuhn and A. W. Miller leaped from the automobile in which they were riding an instant before it was struck by an E. I. passenger train here. The machine was demolished, but they were unhurt.

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L HEAD REACHES VI Forceful Educator in the Person of Professor E. S. Monroe of Muskogee Assumes His New Duties. Prof. Edwin S. Munroo, formerly head of the Muskoreo, Okla., splendid school system and recently elected head of Hammond s public schools, has arrived in the city with his family and will reside at 11S2 Forrest ave. in Kenwood. He is being introduced hv th Lumbers cf tho school board already. J personality and remarkable energy, and f.n article in one of the Muskogee papers eays of h'.m: "The strong currents of education that swept over the new statp Vir.-:iirVit f, ,, I ogee in the first year of statrhor.rf v.A. win g. Monroe from one of Indiana's best city superintendences to take charge of the Muskogee city schools. From the first in that ambitious, sturdy and very competent set cf school men that ruled in those days he compelled attention. He made no special effort for place among school men. That wi not and it not now Superintendent Monroe's attitude toward his educational field. He entered the field as he will rcmajn. a calm, analytical mind, a scholarly gentleman with decided opinions born of broad investigation and hard work, with fi.re enough to keep them warm and demand respect but when that is said, ail is said. Monroe will not push, growl or shove for a place, ito does not have to do sn. I "Muke gee's schools were in the condi- j tion of the new state: fresh, crude, un- I former, but virll. This is r.o reflection J upon the school men who had served i there before. They were excellent men ! and did their work. The system con-1 sistcd of a few brick ward buildings, a few wooden shacks, a few good teachers seatt-ereii amor.g a groqjp of very poor ones, a course of study like the newstate, without form and void. Here was work cnogh for a giant and the new superintendent doffed hl3 cduc2.lirn.il coat as It wr nn -r in "In addressing himself first to th? school plant the state for the first time heard the call to its genuine, deep-seated pride. Oklahoma had been settled as no other state ever was, by men of! means and culture. ! "But beyond and above the mere sal(Continued on page eight.) ELKS ARE BV RULER INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEI ATLANTIC CITY, X. J.. July $. Members of the order of Elks must not seek to evade the prohibition law, Bruce a. Campbell, retiring grand exalted ruler, declared in his final report to the national convention here today. "Every Elk is entitled to his views as to the propriety of prohibition laws," he said, "but as to the question of obedience to them, all Elks can and must have but one opinion and that Is that we must In all instance observe the law. "We must also pledge ourselves as steadfastly opposed to Bolshevism and we must pledge ourselves to aid in driving it from the nation by all lawful means." Commander Evangeline C Booth, of the SaHation Army, the first woman ever invited to speak before the Grand Lodge, today thanked the Elks for their support of the Salvation Army in the recent campaign. Los Angeles has dropped out of the contest for the 1330 convention, swinging her support to Chicago, which is the likely winner. In return Los Angeles will be supported by Chicago for the 1921 convention. LAST FIGURES ON VICTORY LIBERTY LOAN Interesting Data From the Treasury Dept. Received by Chairman Schaaf. County Chairman F. R. Schaaf of the I Fifth Victory -Loan, the most success

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ful of any of them, is in receipt of a letter from the treasury department of the War Loan organization relative to the county's distribution of suscriptions to theVictory Ioan in the following figures: Quota $3. 300.000 Net total credit subscriptions. 7. 064,950 Quota per capita (1910) 63.36 Fer capita (1910) subscribed. 85 26' Population (1910) 82.S64 Net total credit subscribers... 44.962 Tcr cent quota subscribed 1337c Per cent population (1910) subscribing 54 Average sise subscription $157

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Miss Josephine Marie Kelly and King Alexander of Greece. t ATI Athens society is excited. It's because an Americen pirl. Miss Josephine Marie Kelly of Chicatro, caKs the K:np of Greece "Jack" and may soon refer to him as "hubby." Miss Kelly, who is a lovely typj of the blue eyed, coal black haired Irish-American beauty, went to Greece last November with the American Red Cross.

CHINAMAN BACK FROM YEAR' ABROAD Charles Loy, Enlisted Soldier, Returns to Hammond Today. Charley Loy, Hammond's only enlisted Chinaman to go to war, is back home again fresh from the army of occupation at Coblenz, where he was with the 323 M. L. outflt and among the first of the United Siatej troops to get into Ccrmar.y. Charley, who enlisted from the MsrL Sing establishnuit at 13 S. Hohmnu St.. left Hammond Jane 25. He v:'.s twenty-eight years old yesterday. His fauer is dead and his motner lives . Hong Kong. Moy has been a resident of Hammond for ten years. He landed in Newport News on June :s an id has) interesting stories to tell of the year's service he saw overseas. His Chinese friends gave him a great welcome and Hammond Is Gcrtainly rroud cf him and ought to help him tn a business way for he didn't have to serve in the army, not being an American citizen, had be not wanted to do so. T Says Wife and Babe Left Last Night While He Was at Work. Eugene Oomforti. a hard-working Italian, employed by the Indiana Harbor Belt Ry. and living at 647 Vest State street wants his wife and baby, i and hs baby particularly. Eugene works nights and this morning when he returned his wife little boy and all their effects were gone. Neighbors told him that she left about eight o'clock last night. He has no SnVimation why she left." according to his story. "I had no trouble with her and there was no other man mixed up in the case or any other woman to my knowledge. I want my wife and boy back and the boy particular!, so if any one has any clue to their whereabouts please let rne know." CRAMER GETS NEW ORDER Announcement has been received by Recruiting Sergeant Cramer at Ham mond that the War Department will i receive enlistments for one year in the quartermaster and medical departments Tf the army. This will not be confined to previous service men. All enlistments for foreign service must be for the regular three year period. Saturday night marked the- close of the period in which men could specify service in France. I'p to that date Sergeant Cramer had sh;pped twenty two men to th port o-f embarkation for immediate transportation to France.

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V-:T-Engine Trouble Prevents the R-34 From Getting Away for England This Morning. . J international news SEBVlCEl L.M,.1L L. July 8 -The British dlr'fble .R-' ,h1St ancnor and flrt o ma S.CC0 i.iilc trip back to h.r iiL-tween 11 o ciock ionifcui. anu a o cicck tomorrow mormne. barring unexpected changes in tho w eather. This announcement was made thi3 morning by Maj. J. E. Pritchard. in charge of the dirigible overnight, foij lowln an announcement a few hours eariics mat tne trans-Atlantic airship could not be made ready for the start this morning. e could not complete the work of i overhauling the engines in time to get away this morning," said Maj. Pritchard. "There were quite a number of minor troubles with the engines when we arrlvfd. Tli.tifl rpnalrq vill V a cmnlstod ! before night. Ve will push off before weather reports are extremely bad." Before the R-34 makes her getaway, the weather reports will be scanned carefully. If the weather appears favorabio at the start, Maj. Scott, the airship's commander, probably will take the southern course, about 400 miles north of the Azores, but if strong winds are blowing in an unfavorable direction she will return over the same route by whicii she came. She will carry about 1.00't gallons less gasoline on the return trip than on the voyage to America, counting upon westerly winds to push her along. British and American aviation officials guarding the R-34 received two distinct scares early today when the rear of the airship twice settled to the ground. Once the rear gondola bumpeJ the earth and it was feared for a moment that the stern of the big ship was about tj be seriously damaged. Several mea were ordered aboard to release w atcr ballast at the stern. After they had been at work a few minutes the stern rose to a correct position and tho danger was I over. After sunrise the big dirigible was brought down and securely lashed to earth to avoid, a duplication of yesterday's accident in which her envelop was ripped. AUSTRIA MAY GET IN LEAGUE I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICEI PAP.IS. July S. Austria may be admitted into the lease of nations at the TnceUng in Washington in Ortober. That was the situation today on the eve of the presentation of the remainink peac-? urn.s to the Austrian delegation. - ustri- had already made aprlication for Pdmission to the league and was irr-Tmed that if she showed good fiiith he would be admitted soon.

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Dignitaries Leave New York on Battleship to Meet Wilson. (BTJUSTUr.) r-ilNX-ET10NA- NEWS service 1TTW TOEK, July 8. Fresh from fcls triumphant peaoo labors In Europe, . President Wilson arrived home this afternoon and was given a tumultuous greeting. The transport George Washington with Pre si -lent and Mrs. Wilson and a distinguished party cn board docked at Pier No. 4 in Soboken at 2:55 o'clock. The program cf greeting was slightly delayed by the slowness with which the transport made her way from Quarantine to kr dock. (BULLETIN.) ' INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! WASHINGTON, July e Congress re-convened today after a si; day rscess of both hcuses. with President Wilson scheduled to address the senate on Thursday, when he will present ths irtT of Versailles, with the league of nations covenant incorporated, together with the Tranco-American pact, there remained but two days of opponents of ths agreement and of ths pact to eoc, ttnue the verbal warfare they nave waged for the past two months. , Ths president's address, which is reported to be a 5,000 word document, was being- awaited with keen anticipation ty both administration senators and those who have lined up in opposition.. Whether, in view of the almost solid opposition of ths Republican ranks to the league of nations, bis speech would be conciliatory In tone, or whether it would be couched in sharp language, was 'being- made a question for considerable speculation today. flNTER NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK, July 8. Preceded by the battleship' Oklahoma and convoyed by four destroyers, the transport George Washington bringing President Wilson home from France, was reported eight miles east of lightship at 9:45 this morning, according: to a message received at the cruiser and transportation headquaters in Hoboken. The George Washington Is steaming towad New York harbor at about fifteen knots. The destroyers in her convoy are the Wicks. Yarnell, Wolsey and Tarbell. VICE PRESIDENT MEETS WILSON. Vice President Marshall, Secretary cf "War Baker, . Secretary of the NavyDaniels, other cabinet members "and a (Continued on page srx.) IS IN BOSTON TODAY r INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! BOSTON. July g. President Wilson v.-as portrayed as "selling out his country" and the league of nations wa1; characterized as a "document aimed ti serve the interests of England. France. Italy and Japan and at the expense ot" tho United States." by United States t Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California. speaking in Feneuil Hall today. Th? mention of the president's name wi greeted by hissing and there nai prolonged cheering when Senator Johnson in closing exclaimed: "Mr. Wilson owes us an explanation. Let us hope when he lands today In New York he will givo It. If not. thank CJod. there are enough red-blooded men left in Washington to get it. even though th crisis calls for two-fisted Americanism." Senator Johnson also addressed the Massachusetts house of representatives. FIELD AGENT CANNOT COME Sec. Edith Patterson oi Cross Home Service today the Red received telegram announcing agent of the Federal that the field Board of Voca tional Training for 'disabled Soldiers and Sailors and Marin.es. who was t have been In Hammond Wednesday and Thursday. July th and tenth to interview any men who were desirous of taking some sort r,f train. ng, will not be able to come until a later date. AGAIN DENIES RESIGNATION i INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE 1 WASHINGTON, July 8. Reports that Postasttr-General Burleson tendered his resignation to President Wilson in th "inteiests of the lemccratic party" were denied at the postoffict: department today. "Mr. Burleson t;ya thcr is no truth in the newspaper reports of hts res'f.--nation." it was stated by the doorkeeper, who acted as "liason office.-' between the postmaster-general :uvl callers. The por.tmaster-wieneral himself refused to be seen.

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